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They set the first penal colony in Botany Bay to house the convicts from England.The colony became the first colony in NSW
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In the 1790's there were sealers in Van Diemen's Land named Tasmania from 1856.In 1803 the first official settlement was established to ensure French explorers could not claim it.
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The first European to sight Western Australia was the Dutch explorer, Dirk Hartog, the first European to suggest to have found a continent there, who on 26 October 1616 landed at what is now known as Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog Island. Before departing, Hartog left behind an inscribed pewter plate affixed to a post.
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South Australia was established as a free colony in 1836.It was taken from the southern part of New South Wales.
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European settlement had slowly been expanding to costal parts of northern Australia from the 1820's
